Photograph of the James Adams' Floating Theatre taken in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. This floating theatre was the inspiration for the book, Showboat, by Edna Ferber. The boat is docked between a standing business and what looks like a…
Gertrude Carraway wrote: "Not a single day on account of illness has Miss J. Howerton, of New Bern, N.C., ever missed from her duties as a public librarian for 36 years or as city school teacher for 43 years." An early librarian for the New Bern…
"Six miles northwest of New Bern, N.C., is the ancient brick mansion, 'Bellair,' where once lived William Blount, one of the three North Carolina signers of the Federal Constitution. Later Blount moved to Tennessee, where he became a United States…
A description by Gertrude Carraway reads:
"Adapting to the modern trend towards living and working on wheels to politicking on wheels, Charles L. Abernethy, Jr., of New Bern, has equipped a traveling headquarters in a mammoth trailer for his…
Lieutenant Colonel Wilson H. Stephenson in uniform standing in front of large artillery at the National Guard Armory. Lt. Col. Stephenson was the commanding officer of Camp Battle in New Bern when it was established in 1942.
Photograph of the Earl S. Sloan Estate in Trent Woods, behind trees and bushes. Earl S. Sloan, a famous Bostonian millionaire of the early twentieth century and creator of Sloan's Liniment, built the home in Trent Woods in 1914 as a winter home.
Photographed here is Tom Haywood proudly presenting his self-kicking machine at the Croatan Forest, ten miles east of New Bern. Tom Haywood's "Purpose of Origination and Organization" pamphlet states: "I am one of those Americans who has said,…
"President George Washington rested under this beautiful, moss-draped oak tree near Wilmington, N.C. A tablet to mark his visit has been erected there by the Daughters of the American Revolution." - Gertrude Carraway, New Bern, N.C.